{"product_id":"all-our-trials-prisons-policing-and-the-feminist-fight-to-end-violence-9780252042331","title":"All Our Trials  Prisons Policing and the Feminist Fight to End Violence","description":"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWinner, Lambda Literary Award for Best Book in LGBTQ Studies, 2020\u003cbr\u003e Finalist, Mary Nickliss Prize in U.S. Women's and\/or Gender History, Organization of American Historians, 2020\u003cbr\u003e Finalist, Lora Romero First Book Publication Prize, American Studies Association, 2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"The image of prisons as judicious machines of enclosure, and the conception of impartial justice this image serves, are shattered by the activism documented in Emily L. Thuma's \u003ci\u003eAll Our Trials: Prisons, Policing, and the Feminist Fight to end Violence\u003c\/i\u003e.\" --\u003ci\u003eLabour\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Thuma’s book is a refreshing antidote to critiques of the feminist anti-violence movement that have ignored the activism of women of color. Highly readable and deeply archival, with many fascinating images of activists, fliers, posters, and newsletters, Thuma’s book reveals a previously neglected history of important ideological and social movement roots of the current feminist abolition movement. \" --\u003ci\u003eJournal of American History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eAll Our Trials\u003c\/i\u003e offers us a robust history of late twentieth-century radical feminist antiviolence organizing. Thuma reminds us that the activism of the present is built upon an important legacy of work that traversed movements and prison walls. If we are to build an abolitionist feminist future, we would be wise to pay attention to the antiracist queer feminist politics of these activists. We owe a debt of gratitude to them for paving the way, and to Thuma for chronicling their struggles.\"--Angela Y. Davis, University of California, Santa Cruz\u003cbr\u003e​\"Thuma's historical approach to women, prisons, and policing is insightful and thorough. Though never directed to, the reader will certainly feel compelled to more directly contemplate or approach the present issue, but at the very least, \u003ci\u003eAll Our Trials\u003c\/i\u003e is an incredibly effective antidote to the most crippling condition that stands in the way of dismantling the carceral state: apathy.\" --\u003ci\u003eWomen's Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"With deep compassion, Thuma offers one of the most compelling historical analyses of how feminist activism of Black, queer, and criminalized women has worked to resist the long and dangerous reach of the carceral state. \u003ci\u003eAll Our Trials\u003c\/i\u003e is an important text in the growing fields of critical prison studies and anti-carceral feminism \u003ci\u003eand\u003c\/i\u003e a critical addition to activist reading lists.\"--Beth Richie, author of \u003ci\u003eArrested Justice: Black Women, Violence, and America's Prison Nation\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The book covers an interesting time line from the 1970s to early 1980s to bridge together a discussion of anticarceral feminism and feminist prison abolitionism to create an awareness of the interdependence of struggles, multiple feminisms, and coalition building.\" --\u003ci\u003eAffilia: Journal of Women and Social Work\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eAll Our Trials\u003c\/i\u003e transforms our understanding of both the history of feminism and of the carceral state. In her deeply compelling account, Thuma documents the work of activists who centered the lives of the most marginalized in their social justice imaginary and their political agenda, producing an anticarceral feminist politics and an expansive analysis of the interconnections between interpersonal and state violence. A crucial and timely read as we wrestle with gender, race, and violence today.\"--Regina Kunzel, author of \u003ci\u003eCriminal Intimacy: Prison and the Uneven History of Modern American Sexuality\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Thuma packs tremendous detail and insight into this short, well-written book. I recommend it!\" --Chris Dixon, \u003ci\u003eWriting with Movements\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Emily Thuma's \u003ci\u003eAll Our Trials: Prisons, Policing, and the Feminist Fight to End Violence\u003c\/i\u003e is a meticulously researched intervention into histories of feminist antiviolence activism. \u003ci\u003eAll Our Trials\u003c\/i\u003e is a profoundly optimistic and inspiring book. Thuma demonstrates the real power of activism and the way that organizations that are often easily dismissed as too radical or utopian can have far-reaching impacts.\" --\u003ci\u003eFeminist Formations\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"A timely account.\" --\u003ci\u003eIndypendent\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"In the contemporary context of social movements such as #BlackLivesMatter, which criticize the ever growing prison-industrial complex and draw attention to illegitimate violence perpetrated by agents of the state, \u003ci\u003eAll Our Trials\u003c\/i\u003e provides a genealogy of the ideas behind alternatives to criminal justice; the roots of restorative and transformative justice theories can be found in the struggles of the 1970s and 1980s.\" --\u003ci\u003ePunishment and Society\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eAll Our Trials\u003c\/i\u003e offers a vital history for contemporary prison abolitionists seeking to make the world anew. \" --\u003ci\u003eAgainst the Current\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"With \u003ci\u003eAll Our Trials\u003c\/i\u003e, Emily L. Thuma has given us a critically important and cutting-edge history of antiviolence activism.\" --\u003ci\u003eAmerican Historical Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eAll Our Trials\u003c\/i\u003e is a tour de force. It stands among the best books on the history of modern feminist politics and represents one of the most elucidating histories of the US carceral state produced to date. Emily Thuma centers criminalized women’s ideas and organizing, providing graceful historical analysis that will undoubtedly influence current conversations about imprisonment, gender, and sexual violence. This history opens a fiercely urgent path toward an anticarceral feminist future.\"--Sarah Haley, author of \u003ci\u003eNo Mercy Here: Gender, Punishment, and the Making of Jim Crow Modernity\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments    vii Introduction    1\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1.   Lessons in Self-Defense: From “Free Joan Little” to “Free Them All”    15\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 2.   Diagnosing Institutional Violence: Forging Alliances against the “Prison\/Psychiatric State”    \u003cbr\u003e 55\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 3.   Printing Abolition: The Transformative Power of Women’s Prison Newsletters    88\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 4.   Intersecting Indictments: Coalitions for Women’s Safety, Racial Justice, and the Right to the\u003cbr\u003e City    123\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue    159\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Notes    165\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography    199\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Index    219\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  ","brand":"MO - University of Illinois Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52195155312983,"sku":"9780252042331","price":77.35,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780252042331.jpg?v=1763646567","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/all-our-trials-prisons-policing-and-the-feminist-fight-to-end-violence-9780252042331","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}